Selected 100 Letters by Shrimad Rajchandraji

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra,
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Prabhavak Trust Hubli

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humility is the most powerful of the three ways to reach liberation and the source of all these three means or ways to get liberation is the singleminded devotional love for the spiritual guide-complete surrender of the disciple to his master's guidance. What more need I say to you! After infinite stretch of time this is the only way to liberation.
To remove the first and the third obstructive causes one should try to remove the second obstructive cause, and contacting a great spiritual saint one should try to realize or recognize his master's spiritual form or nature. If you strongly desire to know him, then he will disclose it to you. The eyes of the spiritual aspirant recognize their master.
Once the aspirant decides who is his true guide, he gets him and removing his infatuation, he determines his goal to reach his true self and this way his pain of wanting this true self gets less and less and ultimately lost. Once this firm decision about the true self is made, the aspirant becomes fearless and then he develops total unattachment. And this is the correct procedure. Only for the benefit of all you - aspirants for liberation, all this is said in brief you should reflect and discuss amongst you more and more on what is written above and expand it to understand it completely. This is my advice to you all.
I have tried to explain much of the hidden or secret teaching of the sayings of great religious saints in their scriptures.
You repeatedly reflect on what I have written to you in this letter. At proper time when we meet, I will elaborately explain it to you.
At present you cannot contact me or our personal contact does not seem to be possible but we can arrange it in the dark half of Shravan month but at which place? This I have not thought of.
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Because the present time is Kaliyuga or very obstructive time the great spiritual saints have advised the spirituals aspirants not to pass their time even for a moment without thinking about the nature of self.
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My regards to you all
Mumbai
Shravan Sud, V.S. 1947
Due to some worldly work, I could not reply to your letter. Please forgive me for it. I am still busy with that work so that it is difficult to arrange our meeting.
Contact with spiritual saints or their teachings is very difficult in the fourth stage of time, naturally then in our present, worse time it is still further difficult or next to impossible. Knowing this well, a spiritual aspirant should develop acting in such ways that he may rear in him favourable qualities during this absence of spiritual contacts. This he should do repeatedly, in season and out of it and on all favourable occasions. Besides he should keep alive his hankering for good spiritual contacts and keep totally indifferent to all contacts non-spiritual and he should at the same time think of the causes of non-attachment.
While writing this to you, I clearly remember that you must be feeling in your mind, what to do? Or why what you want is not done by any means? Even then it is proper that a man thinking that all other kinds of thoughts need not be harboured in the mind, cherishes only to keep on thinking about the good of his own living soul and feels sorry for not being able to do what he should have done, the